Marine Corps League, Pennsylvania State Convention
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First Pennsylvania State Convention, Marine Corps League, at Lancaster, June 1946. Gen. Gerald Thomas, United States Marine Corps, speaker. George Spiese, Jr., is seated at the table in the center in dark suit. He won two Purple Hearts for service at Iwo Jima during World War II.
St. James Episcopal Church, organized 1744. Present structure begun 1820, enlarged in 1870s and 1880s. Photo used as frontispiece, Klein and Diller, History of St. James. Corner of East Orange and North Duke Streets.
1949 Officers of Lancaster Livestock Exchange Convention. Bill Bixler, secretary; Walter M. Dunlap, treasurer; Jacob P. Warfel, vice president; John M. Hoober, president. 1949 Officers of National Livestock Exchange. W. P. Dolan, treasurer, South St. Paul; Christ E. Mentzer, senior vice president, Omaha; H. R. Park, secretary, Chicago; Rogers E. George, president, South St. Paul. The National Livestock Exchange was held in Lancaster in May of 1949.